Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, JOHN (1799 - 1873?), musician Born at Cwmbran-fach in the parish of Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire. A shoemaker by trade, he spent his life in Llangadock, Carmarthenshire. Taught the elements of music by Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, he was precentor at the local Methodist chapel for many years, during ten years of which he acted also as parish clerk. He conducted classes in music almost every evening in some village or other; he was
EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID (1805 - 1885), cleric and musician , Denbighshire, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was taught music by Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, he studied the musical grammars of Tans'ur, Calcott, etc., and became a good musician. In 1836 he published Original Sacred Music, the first book of hymn-tunes for the use of Anglican congregations in Wales; in 1843 a second series appeared. He wrote a large number of hymn-tunes, amongst the most popular
EDWARDS, MORGAN (1722 - 1795), Baptist minister and historian was buried at Philadelphia. Morgan Edwards, a conspicuously able and scholarly minister, did much for education: (1) at Philadelphia, of whose college he was M.A. and Fellow; (2) in the college (now Brown University) at Providence, Rhode Island (of which he was M.A. and Fellow), the charter of which he helped to secure and for which he collected thousands of pounds in England and elsewhere. He also
EDWARDS, NESS (1897 - 1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament London in 1919 where his fellow students included Aneurin Bevan and James Griffiths. In 1927 he became the full-time secretary of the Penallta Lodge and in 1932 miners' representative for east Glamorgan. In 1938 he became a member of the council of the British Miners' Federation, representing the South Wales Miners' Federation on that body. A year later, following the death of Morgan Jones, he was
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters Bala College and then (1880-3) to Aberystwyth, where he did very well in English and history in the London University examinations (graduating in 1883), but not so well in philosophy despite his great attachment to Henry Jones (1852 - 1922), an attachment which led him to spend a session (1883-4) at Glasgow at the feet of Edward Caird. At Balliol College, Oxford (October 1884), he reverted to history
EDWARDS, RICHARD (1628 - 1704) Nanhoron, Llŷn, Puritan squire with Cavaliers and Anglicans must not make us forget that Edwards was a loyal life-long Puritan, as witness his welcome in 1672 to his Puritan kinsman Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682), the son of Methlan, near Aberdaron, the pains he took to help Maurice's widow over the leasing of the Gwynfryn lands in 1688, and his assistance in securing the services of a South Wales Independent (Daniel Phillips, 1680
EDWARDS, RICHARD FOULKES (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd; 1836 - 1870), poet of 1864 for his awdl 'Ioan yn Ynys Patmos,' and at the Aberystwyth eisteddfod of 1865 he won a prize for a critical essay on the genius of Eben Fardd ('Traethawd Beirniadol ar Eben Fardd a'i Athrylith'). In 1869 at the Liverpool eisteddfod he was awarded the chair for his elegy on Henry Rees. He worked for a time as a clerk in a solicitor's office in Ruthin, and later he worked for Thomas Gee
EDWARDS, ROGER (1811 - 1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister was formally appointed pastor. He married, 1841, Ellen Williams of Dolgelley. They had six children. The eldest son, Ellis Edwards, became principal of Bala College; a daughter, Annie, married Sir Henry Lewis of Bangor. His was a varied and versatile career. He was above all a preacher, but, although he officiated regularly at Associations and festivals, he does not rank amongst the giants of the
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Gwynedd; 1844 - 1924), cleric and eisteddfodwr Born 8 April 1844 at Glasinfryn, Pentir, Bangor, son of Henry Edwards, schoolmaster, and Jane his wife, and christened at Llandegai. He was educated at S. Bees, and was ordained deacon June 1867 by bishop Campbell of Bangor, and priest in 1868. After serving curacies at Llandegfan 1867-72, and Dwygyfylchi, 1872-6, he was preferred to the livings of Llanfihangel-y-pennant 1876, Llanllyfni 1891
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1719 - 1789), Independent minister, and architect the original ' Pont-y-ty-pridd.' For the history of Edwards's endeavours at Pontypridd, we are chiefly indebted to his friend and former neighbour, Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799). Morgan's account was amplified and slightly corrected by the architect himself. Edwards made four attempts (1746-54) before he succeeded in completing his contract to build, for £500, a bridge that would stand for seven years
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School William Edwards was born 6 December 1821 at Caerphilly, one of five children of Evan Edwards, a family doctor in Caerphilly, and his wife Caroline Morgan. William was the great-grandson of William Edwards, the celebrated pastor of the historic Groes-wen chapel, Caerphilly and architect, in 1756, of the bridge crossing the river Taff at Pontypridd which had, at that time, the longest single span
EDWIN family Llanfihangel, Llanmihangel, left a daughter, CAROLINE, who in 1810 married WINDHAM HENRY WINDHAM QUIN, later 2nd earl of Dunraven. The Edwin family in Llanfihangel was thus merged into the family of the earls of Dunraven.

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